Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Ediths Tagebuch [Edith’s Diary] ** (1983, Angela Winkler, Vadim Glowna, Leopold von Verschuer) – Classic Movie Review 12,875

Angela Winkler won the Best Actress award at the Venice Film Festival for the 1983 German psychological thriller film Ediths Tagebuch [Edith’s Diary]. Patricia Highsmith hated the film of her admired novel: ‘a lot of […]

May, 05 · in Uncategorized

Invasion *** (1965, Edward Judd, Valerie Gearon, Lyndon Brook, Yoko Tani, Tsai Chin, Barrie Ingham) – Classic Movie Review 12,874

Aliens crash land near a hospital and mount a night attack on an English village, in the surprisingly sprightly and inventive British 1965 sci-fi film Invasion. Director Alan Bridges’s eerie 1965 Merton Park Studios low-budget British science […]

May, 04 · in Uncategorized

Die gläserne Zelle [The Glass Cell] *** (1978, Brigitte Fossey, Helmut Griem, Dieter Laser, Bernhard Wicki) – Classic Movie Review 12,873

The understandably hard-to-please Patricia Highsmith approved of Hans W Geißendörfer’s gratifying 1978 West German crime film version of her 1964 masterwork novel The Glass Cell. Director Hans W Geißendörfer’s Die gläserne Zelle [The Glass Cell] […]

May, 04

Tomorrow We Live [At Dawn We Die] ** (1942, John Clements, Greta Gynt, Hugh Sinclair, Yvonne Arnaud, Godfrey Tearle) – Classic Movie Review 12,872

The 1942 wartime morale booster British film Tomorrow We Live [At Dawn We Die] stars John Clements, Greta Gynt, Hugh Sinclair and Yvonne Arnaud. It shows the French Resistance at work and the Germans shooting […]

May, 03

Lord Edgware Dies ** (2000, David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Pauline Moran, Helen Grace, John Castle, Fiona Allen, Dominic Guard, Christopher Guard) – Classic Movie Review 12,871

The 2000 murder mystery film Lord Edgware Dies is based on the 1933 novel by Agatha Christie, with a screenplay by Anthony Horowitz, and stars David Suchet as Hercule Poirot. Director Brian Farnham’s 2000 murder mystery […]

May, 02

Lord Edgware Dies ** (1934, Austin Trevor, Jane Carr, Richard Cooper, John Turnbull) – Classic Movie Review 12,870

Austin Trevor makes a decent, convincingly meticulous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in the 1934 murder mystery film Lord Edgware Dies, based on the 1933 novel by Agatha Christie. Director Henry Edwards’s 1934 murder mystery film […]

May, 02

Lord Camber’s Ladies ** (1932, Gerald du Maurier, Gertrude Lawrence, Benita Hume, Nigel Bruce) – Classic Movie Review 12,869

Alfred Hitchcock produced a 1932 mystery drama film titled Lord Camber’s Ladies, which stars his great friend Gerald du Maurier, Gertrude Lawrence and Nigel Bruce. It is the only film Hitchcock produced but did not […]

May, 02

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